Congratulations to Brenda Butka, MD, winner of the 2017 Annals Poetry Prize. Her poem "Intensive Care" was published in the 4 July 2017 issue (vol. 167, no. 1, page 65). Dr. Butka is director of pulmonary rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her work has been published by Threepenny Review, Slant, The Cortland Review, Florida Review, 2nd and Church, Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, Chest, and other journals.

Dr. Butka's poem was selected from poetry published in Annals in 2017 by 3 judges, Daniel Bosch of Emory University; David Elpern of Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Abigail Zuger, who writes for The New York Times. Mr. Bosch is Lecturer in English at Emory University. His 2014 chapbook Octaves is online at www.beardofbees.com. Dr. Elpern edits and publishes Cell2Soul, an online medical humanities journal. Dr. Zuger is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Einstein and an infectious disease expert. Her Strong Shadows: Scenes from an Inner City AIDS Clinic was published by WH Freeman in 1995. She is a regular contributor to the NY Times.